Threats Same--sex "marriage" poses to Libety.

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Religious Liberty threats

#1. British Adoption Conflict Articles

22 March 2007 The U.K. Independent By Colin Brown
Labor wins gay rights vote in Lords
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2381113.ece

February 8, 2007, First Things, By Ryan T. Anderson
Moralism and UK Adoption Laws
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=626

Sun 28 Jan 2007 Scotland on Sunday By EDDIE BARNES & BRIAN BRADY
Church: we'll make gay rights martyrs
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=145842007

31/01/07 UK Telegraph By Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
Regulation must not trump conscience
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=IDF4MB1QSSLMBQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/opinion/2007/01/31/do3102.xml#comments

1/30/2007 U.K Telegraph by George Jones, Political Editor
Church loses opt-out fight over gay adoptions
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=AMIDOOJLRPHWVQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/01/30/ngay30.xml

1/30/07 Guardian Unlimited by Patrick Wintour, Will Woodward and Stephen Bates
Catholic agencies given deadline to comply on same-sex adoptions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2001834,00.html

March 09, 2007, NRO By David Frum
Can Religious Freedom Survive Gay Liberation? – An overview of the cost to human liberty as demonstrated through the British adoption controversy
http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGY0ZmRkNmU1YTY2YWM5NTdmZjRjM2U0MzRhOTg5MGI=

#2. Boston Adoption Controversy

March 11, 2006, Boston Globe By Patricia Wen
Catholic Charities stuns state, ends adoptions-Gay issue stirred move by agency
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/03/11/catholic_charities_stuns_state_ends_adoptions/

#3. General Aricles On the threat to Religious Liberty

05/15/2006, The Weekly Standard by Maggie Gallagher
Banned in Boston - The coming conflict between same-sex marriage and religious liberty.
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/191kgwgh.asp

April 2004 First Things by Raymond J. de Souza
“Thinly Disguised Totalitarianism”
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=322&var_recherche=same+sex+marriage

January 25, 2005 CBC News By Staff
B.C. lesbians fight to hold wedding reception in Catholic hall
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/01/24/lesbian-wedding-050124.html

Nov. 30 2005, CTV.ca By News Staff
B.C. tribunal awards lesbian couple damages
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051129/tribunal_lesbiancouple_051129/20051129?hub=Canada

April 20, 2007 E-Media News PARIS, TX (PRWEB)
Church To Sanction Same-Sex Marriages- First Nation Church Removes Ban On Gay, Lesbian Unions
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/4/emw520132.htm

#4. Free Speech Threats

May 16, 2007 Chicago Tribune By Staff
Teens face hate-crime charge for anti-gay flier
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/content/education/chi-hatecrime_16may16,0,5098417.story?coll=chi-education-hed

April 29, 2007, Huston Chronicle By Associated Press
Archbishop opposed to same-sex unions is threatened
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/4760001.html

March 5, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Egelko
Appeals court sides with Oakland on removal of 'natural family' sign
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/05/BAGASOFO1B5.DTL

February 01, 2007 Canadian Press By Jennifer Graham
Same-sex couple alleges discrimination by Saskatchewan marriage commissioner
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1667e407-a1c2-4ba9-be19-db15918e5018&k=66291

October 12, 2004, CNN WORLD NEWS, By Staff
Berlusconi blasts EU rejection
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/10/12/italy.eu/index.html

January 29, 2005 Washington Post Foreign Service By Keith B. Richburg and Alan Cooperman
Swede's Sermon on Gays: Bigotry or Free Speech? -Pastor Challenges Hate-Law Restrictions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45538-2005Jan28.html

January 25, 2007 365Gay.com By Newscenter Staff
French Politician Fined Under Gay Hate Law
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/01/012507france.htm

Winter 2007, City Journal By John Leo
Free Inquiry? Not on Campus - And the college speech police threaten the liberty of us all.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_1_free_speech.html

May & June 1998, Policy Review
Think welfare policy undermined the family? Try reading a few college textbooks
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3566207.html

#5. SCHOOLS
I. The David Parker Case - Massachusetts law suit centered on the ability of a parent to be not have his child exposed to same-sex "marriage" propaganda in public schools setting.

April 29, 2005 Boston Globe By Maria Cramer and Ralph Ranalli,
Arrested father had point to make - Disputed school's lesson on diversity
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/04/29/arrested_father_had_point_to_make/

February 24, 2007 Boston Globe By Jonathan Saltzman
Same-sex teaching upheld
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/02/24/same_sex_teaching_upheld/

This Site has full details of this case.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker/index.html

II. Others

31 May 2007 U.K Daily Mail By LAURA CLARK
Don't teach that marriage is best say academics
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=458761&in_page_id=1770

May 13, 2007 Hartford Courant By Associated Press
Suit: Sub Showed 'Brokeback' in Class
http://www.courant.com/news/custom/topnews/sns-ap-brokeback-lawsuit,0,6787544.story
OR
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271935,00.html

March 7, 2007, Chicago Tribune By Lisa Black
School accused of promoting homosexuality
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070307gay-school,1,5590132.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Or
March 08, 2007 Fox News
Freshman 'Orientation' on Gay Experiences Angers Parents in Illinois High School
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257748,00.html

2nd April 2007 UK Daily Mail By LIZ HULL
Police send four police officers to tackle boy, 11, who called schoolmate 'gay'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=445996&in_page_id=1770

February 5, 2007 Townhall By Jay Sekulow
You’re Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage--You Must be a Member of the Ku Klux Klan
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JaySekulow/2007/02/05/you%e2%80%99re_opposed_to_same-sex_marriage--you_must_be_a_member_of_the_ku_klux_klan

March 15, 2007, UK Telegraph By A.P. Reporter
Same-sex fairy tales
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21386285-5006007,00.html

#6. PRESS BIAS

July 25, 2004 NYT By DANIEL OKRENT
THE PUBLIC EDITOR; Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E7D8173DF936A15754C0A9629C8B63

February 11, 2007, NYT By BYRON CALAME
THE PUBLIC EDITOR Can a 15-Year-Old Be a ‘Woman Without a Spouse’?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/opinion/11pubed.html?ex=1328850000&en=157a06ff2baed00d&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

MISSILANIOUS

March 9, 2004 New York Times By Don S. Browning-Contributor
The Liberal Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/fileadmin/templates/CSLR_Media/PDFs/Don_browning.Same_Sex.pdf

December 02, 2006 The London Times
Gay pacts go straight as lovers get cold feet over the ties of marriage
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article657380.ece

March 25 2007, Associated Press By GREG BLUESTEIN
Lesbian asks court to ban gay adoptions
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070325/ap_on_re_us/gay_traitor_2

Aug 15, 2006 Weekly Standard By Ryan T. Anderson
"Beyond Gay Marriage"; The stated goal of these prominent gay activists is no longer merely the freedom to live as they want http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/TheWeeklyStandard/2006/08/15/1823653

I. A United Kingdom legal case brought by two sisters concerning the denial of benefits to same-sex households merely on the basis of blood relations.

02/09/2006 U.K. Telegraph By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor
Sisters go to court over 'gay bias' in tax laws
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/02/nherit02.xml

13/09/2006 U.K. Telegraph By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor
Treat us like lesbians, say sisters in tax fight
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/13/nsisters13.xml

October 11, 2006, First Things By Ryan T. Anderson
The Family vs. the State – Brief sketch of the significance of the sisters (above) case.
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=494